Mohammad Rashkan Chakerzehi, a Baloch father of one, executed in secret

Hengaw – Saturday, May 30, 2026

Iranian authorities secretly executed Mohammad Rashkan Chakerzehi, a 55-year-old Baloch man from Sarakhs in Razavi Khorasan Province, at Birjand Central Prison after he had been sentenced to death on drug-related charges.

According to information received by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, the execution was carried out in the early hours of Monday, May 5, 2026, at Birjand Central Prison in South Khorasan Province. Chakerzehi was a resident of Mashhad.

According to the Baloch news outlet Haalvsh, Chakerzehi was arrested in Birjand approximately two and a half years ago on drug-related charges and was later sentenced to death by the city’s Revolutionary Court. He was married and the father of one child.

Informed sources told Hengaw that the execution was carried out without prior notice to his family or lawyer. He was also denied a final visit with his family before the sentence was carried out.

The execution has not been announced by Iranian state media or by media outlets affiliated with the judiciary.